Lynne Kiesling Hold on to your wallets; the Senate is debating the energy bill today. I actually just heard John Thune say that ethanol is a clean fuel that will lessen our dependence on foreign oil. Spare me. Ethanol is neither clean nor a silver bullet to make us self-sufficient in energy. Ethanol production is …
Lynne Kiesling OK, so ‘splain me this: when is selling tickets on eBay that you’ve purchased for a popular concert “profiteering from misery”? When it’s a charity concert organized by the befuddled anti-capitalist Bob Geldof. Bob Geldof is a good musician (the Boomtown Rats were one of my favorite ’80s bands), and I recall attending …
Lynne Kiesling Everyone’s talking about eBay’s 10th anniversary. NPR is running a series of stories on Morning Edition. The Economist’s print edition this week has a cover article on eBay, with clever art: Much of the analysis focuses on the lessons to learn from eBay’s success. The Economist article put it succinctly: To succeed, firms …
Lynne Kiesling John Moser has tagged me with the bibliophile meme (and he did so on a good day, as I am feeling contemplative): 1. How many books do I own? I estimate 1000, split between home and work pretty evenly and not counting the 500 or so additional books contributed by the KP Spouse. …
Lynne Kiesling One of the focal discussion topics at the Center for Advancement of Energy Markets convention was how to articulate the benefits of competition. Competition has been absent from the electricity industry since 1907, when the first states established public utility commissions and began granting monopolies to utilities in retorn for their obligation to …
Lynne Kiesling The radio silence here is a result of my being at the convention for supporters of energy markets sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets. Yesterday was a full day of speakers, all of whom were styled “energy market enthusiasts”, topped off with a banquet. We talked a lot yesterday …
Lynne Kiesling Randall Parker has one of his typically lucid and informative posts on the oxytocin and trust research to which I pointed yesterday. Note also that his focus, and the focus of his commenters, is unlike mine in that it’s much more on how to use this research to come up with new drugs, …
Lynne Kiesling I find this post from Michael Totten and its associated comments particularly helpful for contextualizing the French and Dutch EU Constitution votes. The reminders in the comments about the distinctions between common law constitutions and civil law constitutions were particularly useful. More later, back to work …
Lynne Kiesling Gee, it’s not often that experimental economics hits the headlines, but here it is … according to this New York Times science article, today’s Nature has an article describing research by economists Ernst Fehr, Paul Zak, and others on the hormone oxytocin: In the study, the Swiss researchers had 178 male college students …
Lynne Kiesling Interesting post and comments over at Grant McCracken’s place about Coldplay, their new album, and their disdain for corporate shareholders. I really encourage you to read the whole post and comment thread. A teaser, though, because I really treasure Grant’s open, forward-looking vision as articulated here: Ours is no longer a dual world …
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